# Big strings => panic

Matthew Sanderson (m.sanderson@student.anu.edu.au)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:53:04 PDT

- Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

    It seems MOO server 1.7.8p4 panics when a string gets extremely long (I'm
    not sure exactly how long, but I would guess LONG long).
    Code something like:

    foo = " ";
    while(1)
      foo = foo + foo;
      $command_utils:suspend_if_needed(0);
    endwhile

    will panic the MOO.
    I've seen this happen both on an HP 9000 and on a SPARCstation 20, both
    running sysVr4.
    I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.8.0. Spose I should have posted
    this before now... <shrug>
    For what it's worth...

    Matthew Sanderson
    m.sanderson@student.anu.edu.au
    The Australian National University, Canberra.

    ===========================================================================
    "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
         --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
    ===========================================================================